Social goal setting

We made magazine collages today based on social goals we have for ourselves... being more positive, helping out more, being happy, trying our best, strengthening our relationships, etc. They look awesome!

Eddie reads poem during autumnal equinox assembly!

Go Eddie! We are proud of you for reading the beautiful autumn poem during Friday's assembly. Well done!  We also talked about High School choices and the process for this fall and winter.

Ask your student about the ACTION STEPS form they have regarding what students, families and advisors should be doing each month to prepare for December (tech schools) and February (Magnet schools) applications!

-Ms. Wilson

puppet chess, service learning brainstorm and teddy grahams

See photos of Isaiah and Hunter below... they already joined a team at ESM (cross country) and had their first practice yesterday after school.  People who join things in life are cool!  They got to wear the Captain Awesome shirt for a photo.

Shannon and Hunter forced their animal puppets to play chess. Checkmate! 

Letter to our future selves...

This morning we wrote letters to ourselves.

"Dear me,.... I am proud of you for... in 8th grade! Good job and I know you can't wait to go to high school... wasn't the dance fun? I can't believe I joined the track team- it was hard but fun!... "

We sealed them up to open in June right before our promotion ceremony.  We realized it's important to reach for the future and know that we have the choice to control our lives.

We played our new favorite talk show game called, "Why you actin' so cray cray?!" One person visits the talk show and we get to ask them all sorts of questions.. would you rather go without sports or without video games? Would you rather have $1,000 right now or $50 a week for a year? Interesting stuff.  We were especially intrigued with the 3 school supplies Alexa would bring with her to a deserted island. Ask her about it!

Thanks also to Hunter for the popcorn snack